DATA SHEET
Brocade Analytics Monitoring
Platform
HIGHLIGHTS
••Enables deployment of application and
device performance analytics within
minutes, without downtime
••Monitors the behavior and response
time of any device without the
performance impacts caused by highly
invasive physical taps
••Identifies anomalies and ensures
predictable performance through
benchmarks of latency, IOPS, and
pending I/O metrics
••Generates customized reports with real-
time and historical events to correlate
and summarize trends for behavior
analysis
Breakthrough Analytics for Optimized SANs
Organizations are facing unprecedented data growth, pressure to
transform IT into an economic engine, and demands for actionable
intelligence. To achieve these objectives, administrators need tools that
can provide real-time predictive, advanced, and operational analytics
not available in legacy SAN platforms. Specifically, they need to be
able to pinpoint a problem anywhere—from an application to a storage
system—and provide trend analysis to understand the severity of the
problem. Although third-party tools can provide device- and application-
level performance visibility, such solutions are extremely costly, highly
disruptive, permanently invasive, and do not typically provide direct
visibility into all devices.
The Brocade® Analytics Monitoring Service Level Agreements (SLAs),
Platform provides advanced storage administrators need tools that can
telemetry, including storage device I/O proactively identify performance issues
performance, latency, and other SCSI across the SAN.
metrics, across the network. Leveraging
The Analytics Monitoring Platform
Brocade Fabric Vision™ technology, this
includes several breakthrough diagnostic
platform ensures non-stop operations,
and monitoring capabilities integrated into
identifies potential points of congestion,
Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel technology
and maximizes end-to-end application
to non-invasively provide visibility into
performance.
application, host, fabric, and storage
performance. The Analytics Monitoring
Unmatched Monitoring
Platform delivers:
IT organizations with large, complex,
or highly virtualized data center ••Application-level performance
environments often experience symptoms monitoring with zero downtime
of a problem from a single source. Such
symptoms usually go unnoticed until ••SCSI command behavior and response
time monitoring of any device without
they become severe enough to disrupt
impacting distance or link integrity,
operations. To detect these problems
unlike physical taps that cause light
early on and ensure compliance with
degradation
ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE
TO OPTIMIZE APPLICATION
PERFORMANCE
The Brocade Analytics Monitoring
Platform is a purpose-built SAN
appliance dedicated to measuring
application- and device-level I/O
performance and analyzing traffic
behavior within a Brocade Gen 5 Fibre
Channel network. These analytics deliver
actionable intelligence to administrators,
enabling them to maximize performance
across the data center. The Analytics
Monitoring Platform utilizes Brocade
Fabric Vision technology to non-
invasively and non-disruptively provide
insight into performance and analytics
data collection to dramatically reduce
troubleshooting time.
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••Normal device behavior learning by
measuring time to first response,
exchange completion time, read/write
IOPS, and pending or outstanding
I/Os to ensure predictable performance
and flag unusual behavior or potential
problems
••The ability to discover and deploy
monitoring automatically to tens of
thousands of initiator/target and initiator/
target/LUN pairs in a fabric
Advanced Troubleshooting
With an ever-increasing number of
workloads in virtualized environments,
a large quantity of minor errors in the
network, such as CRC or Class 3 discard
errors, can lead to congestion, a decline
in performance, or outages. To correlate
these errors into actionable intelligence,
administrators are often forced to use
invasive tools that impact optical light
strength, reducing the distance hardware
can be apart.
To keep pace with troubleshooting these
environments, IT administrators need
in-depth visibility and advanced analytics
data in order to make intelligent decisions.
Moreover, they need to access this end-
to-end data without impacting operations.
The Analytics Monitoring Platform
provides 100 percent non-disruptive
analytics data collection to dramatically
simplify troubleshooting. Key features
include:
••
Customizable reports to correlate
metrics and events and summarize
trends for behavior analysis
••On-demand, non-disruptive diagnostics
of server, storage, and fabric devices to
help quickly pinpoint problems
••
Integrated device-level and fabric
behavior metrics to provide visibility
into the entire environment and simplify
correlation of performance problems
••Granular threshold settings and
automated alerts of unusual device
behavior to enable early problem
detection
Increased ROI
To meet the demands of application and
data growth, organizations are deploying
virtualized and cloud environments
with the trade-offs of increased costs,
complexity, and potential downtime. The
Analytics Monitoring Platform leverages
Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel and Fabric
Vision technology to deliver in-depth,
fabric-wide metrics at half the cost of
alternative solutions while reducing
complexity and the risk of downtime.
The Analytics Monitoring Platform uses
Analytic Switch Links (ASLs) to gain
access into a Gen 5 Fibre Channel fabric,
and non-invasive virtual taps at the edge
of the storage and server path to monitor
performance data and device behavior.
This architecture provides flexibility and
scalability, from a few application data
flows to tens of thousands of flows.
In addition, the Analytics Monitoring
Platform:
••Reduces the time to deploy advanced
monitoring and analytics from days or
weeks to minutes
••Automates monitoring, alerting,
and troubleshooting tasks to save
administrators critical time
••Scales out analytics for large
environments without additional OpEx
to maximize ROI
••Integrates with existing Brocade
Network Advisor, Fabric Vision
technology, and Brocade Fabric OS®
CLI tools to reduce the learning curve
and save OpEx
Monitoring, Management, and
Reporting
The Analytics Monitoring Platform can
be configured in minutes with Brocade
Network Advisor. Ongoing operations
are also simplified with automated
workflows for key configuration tasks,
such as flow mirroring. Users can
visually correlate I/O latency metrics in
real time using the standard analytics
dashboard and customize their views
to include other Brocade Fabric Vision
metrics. To accelerate troubleshooting,
administrators can use dashboard
playback to spot potential event triggers,
and use drill-down menus for more
detailed root-cause analysis. To facilitate
proactive management, Brocade
Network Advisor helps users spot trends,
establish baselines, and determine
behavioral threshold settings. Reports
can be generated to show granular or
summary data, so that storage teams
can demonstrate compliance with
performance SLAs.
Professional Services for the
Brocade Analytics Monitoring
Platform
Brocade offers a variety of professional
services for the Analytics Monitoring
Platform. These services include physical
Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform Specifications
System Architecture
Enclosure
Firmware
Fibre Channel ports
Fibre Channel performance
Port types
USB
Media types
Fabric services
Licensing
Management
Supported management software
Security
Management access
Diagnostics
implementation and configuration, initial their Brocade investments, accelerate
setup of monitoring, tuning, reporting, new technology deployments, and
and optimization to maximize network optimize the performance of networking
performance. Based on years of practical infrastructures.
experience and best practices developed
in a wide range of storage networking Maximizing Investments
environments, Brocade Professional To help optimize technology investments,
Services are designed to align with key Brocade and its partners offer complete
business requirements while minimizing solutions that include professional
the impact and cost to the entire services, technical support, and education.
organization. For more information, contact a Brocade
sales partner or visit www.brocade.com.
Brocade Global Services
Brocade Global Services has the expertise
to help organizations build scalable,
and efficient cloud infrastructures.
Leveraging 15 years of expertise in
storage, networking, and virtualization,
Brocade Global Services delivers world-
class professional services, technical
support, and education services,
enabling organizations to maximize
2U chassis
Brocade Fabric OS
24 ports, 16 Gbps, Fibre Channel (for AE_Ports used for Analytic Switch Links, or ASLs, and
AF_Ports)
8.5 Gbps line speed, full duplex; 14.025 Gbps line speed, full duplex; auto-sensing 8 Gbps and
16 Gbps port speeds
AF_Port, AE_Port, D_Port (Diagnostic), and self-discovery based on switch type (U_Port)
One USB port for system log file downloads or firmware upgrades
Fibre Channel: Brocade hot-pluggable Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) and SFP+, Short
Wavelength (SWL) transceivers for 8 Gbps and 16 Gbps SFPs
Fabric Vision technology
Pre-installed: Analytic Capacity upgrade license
SSH v2, HTTP/HTTPS, SNMP v1/v3, Telnet; SNMP (FE MIB, FC Management MIB); Brocade
Network Advisor SAN Enterprise or Brocade Network Advisor Professional Plus; Command Line
Interface (CLI); NTP
DH-CHAP (between switches and end devices), FCAP switch authentication; HTTPS, IP filtering,
LDAP with IPv6, OpenLDAP, Port Binding, RADIUS, TACACS+, user-defined Role-Based Access
Control (RBAC), Secure Copy (SCP), SFTP, SSH v2, SSL, Switch Binding, Trusted Switch
10/100/1000 Ethernet (RJ-45); serial port (RJ-45) and one USB port
POST and embedded online/offline diagnostics, including D_Port
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Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform Specifications (continued)
Mechanical

Enclosure Back-to-front airflow; 2U, 19-in., EIA-compliant, power from back

Size Width: 44 cm (17.32 in.)

Height: 8.64 cm (3.4 in.)
Depth: 60.9 cm (24.0 in.)

System weight 20 kg (44.2 lb) with two power supplies, without SFP/SFP+ and without media
20.07 kg (44.25 lb) with two power supplies, without SFP/SFP+ and with media

Environmental

Temperature Operating: 0°C to 40°C (32°F to 104°F)

Non-operating: −25°C to 70°C (−13°F to 158°F)

Humidity Operating: 10% to 85% (non-condensing)

Non-operating: 10% to 90% (non-condensing)

Altitude Operating: Up to 3,000 m (9,842 ft)

Storage: Up to 12 km (39,370 ft)

Shock Operating: 20 g, 11 ms, half-sine

Non-operating: 33 g, 11 ms, half-sine, 3/eg axis

Vibration Operating: 1.0 g sine, 0.5 grms random, 5 to 500 Hz

Non-operating: 2.4 g sine, 1.1 grms random 5 to 500 Hz

Airflow Maximum: 158 CFM

Power

Power supply Dual hot-swappable, redundant power supplies

Power inlet C14; requires C13 plug

Input voltage 90 to 264 VAC nominal

Input line frequency 47 to 63 Hz nominal

Inrush current Maximum of 40 amps for a period of 10 to 150 ms

Power consumption Short-range optics: 355 W; 16 Gbps SWL optics, fans at nominal speed, two power supplies

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